How many generations back before you stop caring?

[Anglo-Celtic]

As an European I'm not touched by that myself, but I've repeatedly experienced extremely poor information on German immigrants to the USA, even in the 20th century. They can often not be identified if they are to be traced back to Germany, Poland or Russia. This is so incredibly poor that I ask myself if that was even intended by the US administration. Could there have been an interest in cutting off the roots of immigrants for better intergration? And did you face such things iregarding your ancestors from the British Isles?

Another problem are American researchers that assess the question whether an information is significant or not erroneously. If they have an "Johann Hinrich Ihde" from "Mecklenburg" they go into a database and take a fitting one, not being aware of that there may be 250 fitting ones. And then they go on building the correct huge tree for this very likely wrong individual.

I haven't experienced that particular problem with censored information. However, the internet claims, on family trees, can be ludicrous at times. I've seen "records" that claim that the children are older than their parents and that a man has a husband. I don't remember this inaccuracy and lunacy in the past. Like a lot of things, the LDS genealogy site went down the tubes. It was maintained and structured better in the past. Some helpful research sites are gone too. I don't understand why such things are devolving.

[Italicus]

Before 1500(pre-colonisation) I dont really care much ,feels too remote. 1700 - 1900 is more interesting for me.

That fits in very well in the timeframe of the gold rush to Minas, from 1700 to 1760. A true flood of Portuguese in that region, for sure.

[Italicus]

I'd like to trace my ancestors as far as I can, no matter how remote. But I'm not the best genealogist

[Creoda]

I haven't experienced that particular problem with censored information. However, the internet claims, on family trees, can be ludicrous at times. I've seen "records" that claim that the children are older than their parents and that a man has a husband. I don't remember this inaccuracy and lunacy in the past. Like a lot of things, the LDS genealogy site went down the tubes. It was maintained and structured better in the past. Some helpful research sites are gone too. I don't understand why such things are devolving.

Probably because of the commercialisation of genealogy and normies flocking to it, more interested in proving their link to Pocahontas or whoever than the truth.

[Daco Celtic]

I haven't experienced that particular problem with censored information. However, the internet claims, on family trees, can be ludicrous at times. I've seen "records" that claim that the children are older than their parents and that a man has a husband. I don't remember this inaccuracy and lunacy in the past. Like a lot of things, the LDS genealogy site went down the tubes. It was maintained and structured better in the past. Some helpful research sites are gone too. I don't understand why such things are devolving.

That is why you ignore other people's family trees and start your own from scratch based on your own research. The tools for doing that have never been easier to use or more readily available (Ancestry.com Library account or another service with records, Newspaper.com, Genealogy Bank, etc) so it's just a matter of having access to these services and the diligence to do the research.

[Tongio]

That fits in very well in the timeframe of the gold rush to Minas, from 1700 to 1760. A true flood of Portuguese in that region, for sure.

Exactly that , it is the one side I know the least also for that it interests me the most , not many documents online and the ones i find are in terrible condition.Oposite to that my paulista and nordestino sides are well documented back to jesus christ lol .

[Tongio]

I'd like to trace my ancestors as far as I can, no matter how remote. But I'm not the best genealogist

For you digging you italian ancestry might be very interesting as many notables have lived in those lands since long time ago.How far can you reliably trace more or less on average?

[Italicus]

Exactly that , it is the one side I know the least also for that it interests me the most , not many documents online and the ones i find are in terrible condition.Oposite to that my paulista and nordestino sides are well documented back to jesus christ lol .

Èu viu una mapa racial do Brazil que muestran que o Serido tem muitos brancos. Sou curioso que si tem muitas pessoas que tem 90% o mas Europeo, mas nao se se o seu definicao do branco e differente no Serido en comparacao a o Sul, Sao Paulo o Minas. Voce tem ancestria do Serido, nao?

(Disculpe por o meu Portuguese, e merda)

[Italicus]

For you digging you italian ancestry might be very interesting as many notables have lived in those lands since long time ago.How far can you reliably trace more or less on average?

I can trace back to my great grandparents on both sides (except my Chinese side, my grandpa never told us) I know where they come from, but the names I don't know really.

[Tongio]

Èu viu una mapa racial do Brazil que muestran que o Serido tem muitos brancos. Sou curioso que si tem muitas pessoas que tem 90% o mas Europeo, mas nao se se o seu definicao do branco e differente no Serido en comparacao a o Sul, Sao Paulo o Minas. Voce tem ancestria do Serido, nao?

(Disculpe por o meu Portuguese, e merda)

Tem sim, é o lado mais claro da minha família inclusive, eu não sei o critério deles pra ser branco lá mas não creio ser diferente do que se tem no sudeste(que já é flexível). Minha avó materna é do Seridó e ela seria certamente mais de 95% europeia com o resto sendo indígena.